Christopher Leasher pleads guilty
Guilty plea for Leasher in MySpace teen sex assault case:
Back in August I made two posts about one Mr. Christopher Leasher aka Christopher Jive. He’s the 24-year-old from the Philadelphia area that was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl that he met over MySpace. I received a deluge of comments from people that know him proclaiming his innocence. One as even recent as yesterday. Here’s a sample.
No one has heard HIS side of the story.
Listen asshole you might wanna wait on casting the thunbs down on someone till you know the whole story.
Why must you all DEMONIZE him with out knowing?
Well, his side of the story came out and guess what. He pleaded guilty.
He pleaded guilty to charges of statutory sexual assault, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor and delivery of a controlled substance.
His bail was revoked, he was sent to county until sentencing, and he’ll have to be a registered sex offender for at least 10 years after he gets out.
Am I happy that he pleaded guilty? Do I seem joyous that he’s been incarcerated. Are you kidding? I’m freakin’ ecstatic that one more drug addled scumbag that likes, in his own words, ‘teenyboppers’ is off the damn streets.
They’re going to love you in lock up Christopher Jive.
Tags: Christopher-Leasher, cocaine, sexual-assault
4 opinions for Christopher Leasher pleads guilty
David
Feb 5, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Sometimes, I read this blog and think “what a fair-minded, reasonable person, you are.”
Other times, I read it and think “what a vindictive, self-righteous, unfeeling brute, you are”.
Today, it is the latter. No matter how horrible his crime, this young man has people who love and care about him who are in much pain today. When a crime is committed, the entire community suffers, and for you to take joy in that pain and suffering brings me great sadness. While I appreciate that you may consider yourself to be taking joy in “justice”, I simply ask you to remember why, at the end of a criminal case, regardless of the outcome we don’t see the whole court stand up and applaud. It is because justice is a sober process. It should never be celebrated when one member of society has to be put behind bars. It means that not only has he failed us, but somewhere in his life, someone (or many people) failed him. Also it means that we failed the victim. This isn’t something to be happy about.
Any time we incarcerate someone, it is society admitting failure. We do not put people behind bars because it is the optimal thing to do. We do it because we have to…because no one has thought of anything better. I don’t think we should be celebrating our failure of imagination as a society.
On another topic, I don’t necessarily think in today’s age that just because someone pleads “Guilty” that they necessarily are. There are some pretty stiff mandatory minimum sentences, including lifetime sex offender registration that scare many of these cases into pleading guilty. Unfortunately, most of these people are (under)represented by public defenders who are over worked and underpaid. I have no idea if any of these issues are at play in this case, but to think that just because someone pleads guilty in court it means that they are completely responsible for the crime is naive, and doesn’t take into account the complexities of sentencing in the country today.
I think what gets me most about your post is not that you’re happy about him being locked up…really you’re more happy about being “right”.
That’s all the more disheartening.
Logick Bomb
Feb 5, 2008 at 7:16 pm
It’s “Lecter”.
Nice blog.
Trench
Feb 5, 2008 at 10:44 pm
What can I say David? I’m an enigma wrapped in a riddle smothered in secret sauce.
I think what gets me most about your post is not that you’re happy about him being locked up…really you’re more happy about being “right”.
I’m both actually.
Dan
Feb 6, 2008 at 1:51 am
I have to admit, there is a bit of unwholesome satisfaction in seeing Leasher thwarted. He was just so outrageous in his misdeeds, sure he was above the law and would never be caught because, I don’t know, he was super special or something. The ego. The thoughtless, violating self-indulgence he permitted himself, careless of all but himself and his wants….he really need to be knocked back hard. Such bad boy predation, wooing a high school freshman out of her parents’ home with rock star promises. Damn. I mean, he earned this.
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